The evicted families of Ayazma, Istanbul

Author(s) of the work: Stefano Collizzolli, Alessio Surian

In March, 2007, under the massive Istanbul Urban Redevelopment Project, a whole sector of houses in Ayazma neighborhood were demolished.
18 family, formerly tennant there, were neve relocated and are still living in tents.
For two times the huts and tents of the 18 families were forcibly taken down, broken to pieces and completely demolished.
And every time they returned there and reconstruced the campment.
And there they are still, waiting for a solution.